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Josh Lasser is a freelance entertainment reporter/critic. His work has appeared in print, online, and perhaps one day in book form.
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Top Gear Walks on Water While Sarah Connor Blazes a New Trail
I know that you've disagreed with me some about this, I know that you think I'm not right, but today I come to you with proof. Not only is Top Gear the best show on television, it walks on water…… Read More ›
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The New TV Season and the Power of the Remote
If my calculations are correct, and I believe they are, while the television season has started to some extent, it's a week from today when things really get going. It's a week from today when shows like How I Met… Read More ›
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Kitchen Nightmares Could Be Changing Me
I don't know, maybe I'm getting old. Maybe I'm not who I used to be. Maybe I'm just getting a little too soft for my own good. I was watching Kitchen Nightmares last night, and the owner of the restaurant… Read More ›
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She’s Back, but is she Bettyer? Ugly Betty Season 2 on DVD
Usually, television comedies focus on either the workplace or the home. There is always a little bit of crossover, but a show tends to stick to one or the other. There are of course some notable exceptions to this rule,… Read More ›
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Fringe Gets all Spooky (Mulder)
As I promised yesterday, today we talk Fringe. I'm just not sure how I feel about it yet. There's so much potential there, there's so much possibility for the show to be great, but it wasn't great in its premiere…. Read More ›
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Terminator Gets All Hot and Liquid Metal-y
Are you feeling the excitement of the new TV season yet? I certainly am. Last night we got the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and tonight J.J. Abrams and FOX are going to be delivering Fringe. It's… Read More ›
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Hole in the Wall Nothing But a Big, Empty Space
I come to you today to talk about a national tragedy. No, strike that, apparently it's an international travesty. I sat down last night after Mad Men to watch a game show on FOX called Hole in the Wall. To… Read More ›
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Ramsay’s Nightmares Not Quite Scary Enough
Maybe I shouldn't be, but I am. I am excited, and there's very little you or anyone else (save the television gods) can do it about it. Last night, for me, the television season truly began. Last night Kitchen Nightmares… Read More ›
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Samurai Girl Isn’t Heaven in My Book
Coming of age stories, no matter the medium, always seem to be terribly popular. The transition from childhood to adulthood is something we all go through. It's a hard enough time in all our lives, but, in order to make… Read More ›
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What I Watched on My Summer Vacation
The new television season is almost upon us, and, quite frankly, I can't wait for it to commence. While some shows have premiered during the past two weeks, it is this week when “my shows” start premiering. We've already talked… Read More ›
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The Office Brings Its Fourth Season to DVD
It's a new rite of the end of summer – just before the new television season starts, a plethora of boxed sets from the last television season are released to DVD. One of the funniest of those series arrives on… Read More ›
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More on What I’ll be Watching This Fall
Earlier this week you and I discussed my fall viewing schedule… in part. We'd already, as I'm quite sure you recall discussed Mondays, and now we've taken care of Tuesday and Wednesday as well. Those were pretty easy days, because,… Read More ›
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Does One Eleventh Hour Plus One Eleventh Hour Give You Twenty-Two?
This fall, CBS will premiere a new, semi-sci-fi series in which one man (with some help, of course) thwarts mad scientists (sort of, anyway). Entitled Eleventh Hour, the series is actually a remake of a British series of the same… Read More ›
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I Wouldn’t Exactly Call This Raising the Bar
Legal procedural dramas are not exactly a new species of television show. Law & Order guru Dick Wolf himself tried to get two series about the NY district attorney's office off the ground in the L&O universe (or at least… Read More ›
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Well, You’ll End up Being Blue if You Watch This Elephant
If one picks up a copy of the new DVD release The Blue Elephant, one instantly gets the impression simply by looking at the front cover that the movie is meant for kids of all ages. After all, the cover… Read More ›
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A Little Bit on a Lot of Things – The Olympics, Politics, and My Fall TV Schedule
Happy days are here again… almost. The Olympics are finished, and, as you know, that pleases me to no end. No longer will I have to deal with watching athletes see their “lifelong” dreams shattered due to an inglorious fall…. Read More ›
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Talking Tools and Fairy Instruments – There’s More Handy Manny and Little Einsteins on DVD
One of the most important things in children's programming is that it be enjoyable (or at the very least, inoffensive) for adults. One of the great failings of much children's programming is that the adult watching it with the child… Read More ›
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Boy, That Gavin & Stacey Sure do Get Along Better Than Ned Did With Her
The course of true love never did run smooth. Such is certainly the case in the new (“new” in that it hasn't aired in this country yet) BBC America comedy Gavin & Stacey. Premiering on August 26, the series follows… Read More ›
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Eureka Goes All Bill Murray
Have you ever seen Groundhog Day? No? Well, how about Eureka last night, because it was, essentially, the same plot device… not that there's anything wrong with that. Last night's episode featured Sheriff Carter reliving the same day over and… Read More ›
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Top Gear Uses My Name (But Not in Vain)
What do you want me to tell you? What can I possibly say to you? I've waited four long months to be able to tell you this. Every Monday night I've sat down, turned on the TV, watched my favorite… Read More ›
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